Discuss the importance of geography

China's tourism geography is one of the leading countries in the world. As a new branch discipline, tourism geography can develop so rapidly and achieve such remarkable results, and its experience is worth analyzing and summarizing.

(1) The field of tourism geography has always grasped the main direction of tourism geography serving the national economy, given full play to the application characteristics of tourism geography, closely followed the theme of China's tourism development and construction, took the initiative to undertake a variety of scientific research tasks at different levels and types, and completed a large number of scientific research reports with high practical value, which made important contributions to the development of China's tourism industry and improved the status of tourism geography. The expansion of geography tourism application research has also promoted the construction and development of geography itself.

Time geography

The branch of geography that studies modern geographical processes from the perspective of time. From the time scale, geography can be divided into three periods: paleogeography, historical geography and time geography. Time geography focuses on the geographical study of modern processes. According to the traditional concept, it is generally believed that geography is a subject starting from space, and the philosopher I Kant started from dualism. Defining geography as the science of studying spatial things has become the basic starting point of modern geography thought. Hertner and Hartshorne believe that geography studies spatial systems, so it is a discipline of distribution theory. But in practice, they also admit that geography is a field with "time as the background". Hartshorne discussed time and occurrence in the study of geomorphology, climate and modern cultural elements. It is pointed out that the main purpose of geography is to understand the existing world. With the development of geography, many geographers are more and more aware that it is impossible to conduct space research without time. Geography must thoroughly investigate the nature and function of time in geographical environment, and must move from static to dynamic. Since the 1970s, with the attention of historical geographers to the study of geographical time, some geographers have published monographs. This paper studies the structure, population, industry, architectural layout and form of big cities, and establishes a time-space model. It is considered that time is the basic component of all behavioral scales and belongs to available resources as well as space. In recent years, with the development of chronology, the phase law and the law of increase and decrease in time period have been embodied in a large number of geographical processes. It has been applied to forecasting. With the introduction of system theory and dissipative structure into modern geography, the earth's surface or geographical system is regarded as an open system far from equilibrium, so it is orderly in time and has a history of continuous evolution from simple to complex and from low to high. Its dynamic process is directional. Only in this way can the concept of time in modern physics really enter geography. It is also related to the second law of thermodynamics and the concept of entropy. Therefore, the irreversibility of time is also put forward in geography. On the whole, the geographical process is irreversible. These modern geographical viewpoints are of great significance to the deepening of the basic theory of geography.

(2) Tourism geography always puts the practice and theoretical summary of tourism development in an important position, actively participates in tourism development practice, pays attention to multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary comprehensive research, and pays attention to transforming theoretical knowledge into practical productivity. Many theoretical viewpoints developed and tested in practice have laid a solid foundation for the sustainable development of tourism geography.

(3) Practice has created a large number of tourism geography professionals, and the support and support of the older generation of tourism geographers has promoted the growth of young scholars, which has formed a trapezoidal team structure of old, middle-aged and young people, including academic leaders and backbone forces.

Looking forward to 2 1 century, human society will enter the era of knowledge economy, and as a sign to measure the improvement of human life quality, tourism will develop further. The World Tourism Organization (WTO) predicts that by 2020, China will become the largest tourist country in the world, and China's tourism industry has a bright future. Tourism geography should carry forward the tradition of integrating theory with practice, practice extensively, be brave in innovation, continue to display its talents on the broad stage of tourism, and further improve its theoretical system.